personality inventory

American  

noun

Psychology.

1. a questionnaire designed to measure personality types or characteristics.

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personality inventory British  

noun

1. psychol a form of personality test in which the subject answers questions about himself. The results are used to determine dimensions of personality, such as extroversion

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Etymology

Origin of personality inventory

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Not long after, a Carl Jung-obsessed homemaker, Katharine Cook Briggs, and her daughter, Isabel Myers, developed their own personality inventory, despite having no psychological training, which they started distributing in 1943.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Perhaps most famous of all is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, that much-lambasted but oddly persistent personality inventory you often encounter in corporate team-building seminars or in career counseling.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018

Supplementary manual for the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office